The Institute of Experimental Botany and the Institute of Chemistry of New Materials represented by researcher Igor Ovchinikov, graduate student Ninel Elovskaya and junior researcher Victoria Nikolaichuk (headed by Academician Nikolai Laman) are developing a growth regulator and immunomodulator of plants are looking for partners to conclude a research cooperation agreement.

The project is aimed at optimizing the process of obtaining new environmentally friendly compounds based on natural biologically active substances and scientific substantiation of their use in agriculture. As a result of the research, the synthesis technique has been improved and the quantitative patterns of the formation of chitosan conjugates with hydroxycinnamic acids have been established.

The presentation of the technology can be found here (in Russian).

The conjugates obtained in the form of various preparative forms have high biological activity and, with various methods of application, are able to stimulate the growth and development of higher plants, increase their productivity and reduce the stress load of adverse environmental factors.

"Growth regulator and immunomodulator of plants" is the winner of the Republican youth project "100 ideas for Belarus 2023" in the nomination "Agro-industrial technologies and farming".

The Institute is the leading scientific institution coordinating botanical, physiological, and biochemical research in Belarus, provides scientific support for state regulation and management in the field of handling flora objects, entrusted to the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the Flora".

The Institute takes part in international technical assistance projects, projects of the Belarusian Foundation for Fundamental Research within the framework of international competitions, projects of the UN Development Program, and others.

A Russian-Belarusian laboratory of innovative bioengineering technologies was created (partner organization - Institute of Biophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) with the aim of conducting scientific research in the field of developing new principles for the formation of a phototrophic link of higher plants of closed ecosystems (ZES) for space and terrestrial purposes based on obtaining priority scientific data of innovative bioengineering technologies.

Partners interested in the development of a growth regulator and plant immunomodulator under a research cooperation agreement.